Start-up offers digital parking system at central station in Thiruvananthapuram

Customers can use the facility at Thampanoor by making payments through FASTag or other digital cards

A Thiruvananthapuram-based start-up has come up with a digital car parking system for the Central Railway Station at Thampanoor, enabling customers to make payments for availing the facility through FASTag or other digital cards. With this, the existing system of manually issuing parking slips will slowly be done away with. In the initial period, the automatic parking system through FASTag is enabled only for the car parking area, as two-wheelers are not provided FASTag as of now. Anantham Online Private Limited, floated by former employees of various companies at Technopark, developed the system in collaboration with the Southern Railway. It helps customers enjoy trouble-free entry and exit. All that they have to ensure is that the vehicles have an active FASTag with sufficient balance. FASTag has been made mandatory by the Union government for vehicles at toll plazas.